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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 



LAWS OF CONGRESS. 



AN ACT donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide 
Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted 
to the several states, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned, an amount 
of public land, to be apportioned to each state, in quantity equal to 
30,000 acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which 
the states are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the 
census of 1860; Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or 
purchased under the provisions of this act. 

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being 
surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several states in sections or sub- 
divisions of sections not less than one-quarter of a section ; and wher- 
ever there are public lands in a state, subject to sale at private entry, at 
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said 
state shall be entitled, shall be selected from such lands, within the 
limits of such state ; and the secretary of the interior is hereby directed 
to issue to each of the states, in which there is not the quantity of pub- 
lic lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five 
cents per acre, to which said state may be entitled under the provisions 
of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its 
distributive share ; said scrips to be sold by said states, and the pro- 
ceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, 
and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in no case 
shall any state to which land scrip may thus be issued, be allowed to 
locate the same within the limits of any other state, or of any territo- 
ries of the United States ; but their assignees may thus locate said land 
scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States sub- 
ject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty five cents an acre. 
And 'provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be 
located by such assignees in any one of the states. And provided fur- 
ther, That no such locations shall be made before one year from the 
passage of this act. 

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of manage- 
ment and superintendence and taxes from date of selection of said 
lands, previous to their sale, and all expenses incurred in the manage- 




ment and disbursement of the moneys which may be received there- 
from, shall be paid by the states to which they may belong, out of the 
treasury of said states, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said 
lands shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes 
hereinafter mentioned. 

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That all moneys derived from the 
sale of lands aforesaid, by the states to which the lands are apportioned, 
and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be in- 
vested in stocks of the United States, or of the states, or some other 
safe stocks, yielding not less than five per cent, upon the par value of 
said stocks; and that the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual 
fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, (except 
so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act,) and the interest 
of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each state, which may 
take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and 
maintenance of, at least, one college, where the leading object shall be, 
without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including 
military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to 
agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures 
of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal 
and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits 
and professions in life. 

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and scrip 
hereby authorized, shall be made on the following conditions, to which, 
as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the 
several states shall be signified by legislative acts : 

First — If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the fore- 
going section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any 
action, or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the 
state to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain 
forever undiminished; ,and the annual interest shall be regularly 
applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth 
section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum 
upon the amount received by any state under the provisions of this dct, 
may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental 
farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said 
states. 

Second — No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be 
applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, for the 
purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings. 
Third — Any state which may take and claim the benefit of the provis- 
ions of this act, shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one 
college, as prescribed in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to 
such state shall cease ; and said state shall be bound to pay the United 
States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the 
title to purchasers under the state shall be valid. 

Fourth — An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of 
each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with 
their costs and results, and such other matters, including state indus- 
trial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of 
which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colle- 



ges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also 
one copy to the secretary of the interior. 

Fifth — When lands shall be selected from those which have been 
raised to double the minimum price in consequence of railroad grants, 
they shall be computed to the state at the maximum price, and the 
number of acres proportionally diminished. 

Sixth — No state, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection 
against the government of the United States, shall be entitled to the 
benefits of this act. 

/Seventh — No state shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless 
it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years 
from the date of approval by the President. 

§ 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the 
provisions of this act, shall not be subject to location until after the first 
day of January, 1863. 

§ 7. And be it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the 
same fee for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act, 
as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants 
under existing laws : Provided, That maximum compensation shall not 
be thereby increased. 

§ 8. And be itjurther enacted, That the governors of the several 
states to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required to 
report annually to congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole 
shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appro- 
priation has been made of the proceeds. 

Appkoved July, 1861. 



AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an act entitled "An act donating public lands to 
the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agri- 
culture and the Mechanic Arts," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and 
such colleges established. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni- 
ted States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time in which 
the several states may comply with the provisions of the act of July 
two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled u An act donating public 
lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges 
for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby ex- 
tended so that the acceptance of the benefits of said act may be ex- 
pressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colle- 
ges required by the said act may be provided within five years 
from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the commissioner 
of the general land office : Provided, That when any territory shall 
become a state and be admitted into the Union, such new state shall 
be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July two, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within 
three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and provi- 



ding the college or colleges within live years after such acceptance, as $ 
prescribed in this act : Provided, further, That any state which has 
heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to, shall 
have the period of five years within which to provide at least one col- 
lege, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the time for 
Eroviding said college, according to the act of July second, eighteen 
undred and sixty-two, shall have expired. 
Approved July 23, 1866. 



LAWS OF ILLINOIS 



AN ACT in relation to the location of the Industrial University. 

Whereas, each portion of the State is alike interested in the proper 
location of said University, and it is desirable to enable the public 
spirit of each community or section to fully compete for such loca- 
tion ; therefore 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the /State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly, That any county, city, township 
or incorporated town of said state, may, by taxation, as well as by vol- 
untary subscription of its citizens raise a fund to secure the location of 
said University at any point whatever, and any other corporation in 
this state may make bids and subscription for the purpose of securing 
said location at any point whatever. 

§ 2. That any county through its county courts or board of super- 
visors, and any township or town through its supervisor, assessor and 
collector, and any city or incorporated town through its council or board 
of aldermen, or other constituted authorities, as the case may be, may 
subscribe such sum or sums as they may deem necessary to secure such 
location, and to raise the amount or amounts so subscribed by taxation, 
or by issuing bonds payable at any seasonable or convenient time, and 
bearing any rate of interest not exceeding "ten per cent, per annum :" 
Provided, however, That no tax shall be levied for such purpose until 
the proposition so to raise a fund, together with the amount to be raised 
shall, after at least ten days' notice be submitted to a vote of the peo- 
ple so to be taxed, and be approved by a majority of the persons voting 
at such election : Provided, That the county clerk of such county shall 
order an election in accordance with the provisions of this act : and 
provided also, that it shall not be obligatory on any county, city or 
town authorities, or county clerk, as aforesaid, to submit any such pro- 
position to a vote of the people unless at least one hundred of the legal 
voters of said county, city or town shall petition for the same, in which 
event said election or elections shall be ordered : And provided further, 
that any election heretofore held in any county, city or town for the 
purpose aforesaid is hereby legalized and made valid. 

§ 3. The county, city or town authorities as aforesaid, are hereby 
invested with full power to make any and all needful orders and regu- 
lations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions, and in case of an 



election being applied for, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said 
authorities to give the usual and seasonable notices, required by law, 
according to this act, and the end in view, and to conduct and report 
the same in the usual way. Such election to be conducted and return 
made according to the law governing elections : Provided, That the 
registry of votes used at the last general [election] shall be the registry 
for any election to be held under this act. 

§ 4. This act shall be a public act, to take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

Approved Jaunarv 25, 1867. 



AN ACT to provide for the organization and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial Uni- 
versity. 

Section 1. Be it enacted oy the People of the State of Illinois \ repre- 
sented in the General Assembly ', That it shall be the duty of the gov- 
ernor of this state, within ten days from the passage of this act, to 
appoint five trustees, resident in each of the judicial grand divisions of 
this state, who, together with one additional trustee, resident Li each of 
the congressional districts of this state, to be appointed in like manner, 
with their associates and successors, shall be a body corporate and poli- 
tic, to be styled "The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial Uni- 
versity;" and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, 
have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to 
plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold and convey real and personal 
property ; to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same at 
pleasure ; to make and establish by-laws, and to alter or repeal the same 
as they shall deem necessary, for the management or government, in 
all its various departments and relations, of the Illinois Industrial Uni- 
versity, for the organization and endowment of which provision is made 
by this act. Said appointments to be subject to approval or rejection 
by the Senate at its next regular session thereafter, and the appointees 
to be and they are hereby authorized to act as trustees as aforesaid, until 
their successors shall be appointed by the governor and such appoint- 
ment shall be approved by the senate. 

§ 2. The members of the board of trustees, and their successors, 
shall hold their office for the term of six years each : Provided, that at 
the first regular meeting of said board, the said members shall deter- 
mine, by lot, so that, as nearly as may be, one-third shall hold their 
office for two years, one-third for four years, and one-third for six years 
from the first day of said meeting. The governor, by and with the ad- 
vice and consent of the senate, shall fill all vacaucies which may at any 
time occur by expiration of term of office, or otherwise, in said board, 
by appointment of suitable persons resident in the respective grand di- 
visions and congressional districts in which such vacancies may occur. 
Said board of trustees may appoint an executive committee of their 
own number, who, when said board is not in session, shall have the 
management and control of the same, and for that purpose have and 



exercise all the powers hereby conferred on said board which are neces- 
sary and proper lor such object. 

§ 3. In case the board of trustees shall at any time determine to 
establish a branch or department of said university at any points elect- 
ed by them, such branch or department shall be under the control of 
the members of said board residing in the grand division and congres- 
sional district where said branch shall be located, unless otherwise 
ordered by said board of trustees : Provided, That no portion of the 
funds resulting from the congressional grant of land for the endowment 
of said university, or from any donation now or hereafter to be made 
by the county, city or town at or near which university is located ; 
and no portion of the interest or proceeds of either of said funds shall 
ever be applied to the support of any branch or department located 
outside of the county wherein said university is located by this act. 

§ 4=. The first regular meeting of the board of trustees shall be 
held at such place as the governor may designate, on the second Tues- 
day in March, a. d. 1867, at which meeting they shall elect a regent 
of the university, who, together with the governor, superintendent of 
public instruction and president of the state agricultural society, shall 
be, ex officio, members of said board of trustees. Said regent, if pres- 
ent, shall preside at all meetings of the board of trustees and of the 
faculty, and shall be charged with the general supervision of the edu- 
cational facilities and interests of the university. His term of office 
shall be two years, and his compensation shall be fixed by the board of 
trustees. 

§ 5. At the first, and at each biennial meeting thereafter, it shall 
be the duty of the board to appoint a treasurer, who shall not be a 
member of the board, and who shall give bonds, with such security as 
the board of trustees shall deem amply sufficient to guard the univer- 
sity from danger of loss or diminution of the funds intrusted to his care. 
The trustees may appoint, also, the corresponding secretary, whose duty 
it shall be, under the direction or with the approval of the trustees, to 
issue circulars, directions for procuring needful materials for conduct- 
ing experiments, and eliciting instructive information from persons in 
various counties, selected for that purpose, and skilled in any branch 
of agricultural, mechanical and industrial art; and to do all other acts 
needful to enable him to prepare an annual report regarding the pro- 
gress of the university, in each department thereof — recording any 
improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and 
such other matters, including state, industrial and economical statistics, 
as may be supposed useful ; not less than five thousand copies of which 
reports shall be published annually, and one copy be transmitted by 
said corresponding secretary, by mail, free, to each of the other colleges 
endowed under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved July 
2, 1862, entitled "An act donating lands to the several states and terri- 
tories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and 
the mechanic arts; one copy to the United States Secretary of the In- 
terior; and one thousand copies to the Secretary of State of this state, 
for the state library, and tor distribution among the members of the 
General Assembly. Also, a recording secretary, whose duty it shall 
be to keep faithful record of the transactions of the board of trustees, 



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and prepare the same for publication in said annual report. The said 
treasurer, corresponding and recording secretaries to receive such com- 
pensation as the trustees may fix, and to be paid in the same manner 
as the teachers and other employees of the university are paid. 

§ 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the university, 
except by order of the board of trustees, on warrant of the regent, 
drawn upon the treasurer, and countersigned by the recording secre- 
tary. 

§ 7. The trustees shall have power to provide the requisite build- 
ings, apparatus and conveniences ; to fix the rates for tuition ; to ap- 
point such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for 
the management of such model farms, model art, and other depart- 
ments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most 
thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agricul- 
ture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding 
other scientific and classical studies. They may accept the endow- 
ments of voluntary professorships or departments in the university, 
from any person or persons or corporations who may proffer the same, 
and, at any regular meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and 
regulations in relation to such endowments, and declare on what gene-^ 
ral principles they may be admitted : Provided, That such special 
voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be incompatible with 
the true design and scope of the act of Congress, or of this act ; and 
they shall, as far as practicable, arrange all the regular and more im- 
portant courses of study and lectures in the university, so that the stu- 
dents may pass through and attend upon them during the six autumn 
and winter months, and be left free to return to their several practical 
arts and industries at home during the six spring and summer months 
of the year, or to remain in the university and pursue such optional 
studies or industrial avocations as they may elect : Provided, That 
no student shall at any time be allowed to remain in or about the uni- 
versity in idleness, .or without full mental or industrial occupation : 
And provided, further, That the trustees, in the exercise of any of 
the powers conferred by this act, shall not create any liability or in- 
debtedness in excess of the funds in the hands of the treasurer of the 
university at the time of creating such liability or indebtedness, and 
which may be specially and properly applied to the payment of the 
same. 

§ 8. No student shall be admitted to instruction in any of the de- 
partments of the university who shall not have attained to the age of 
fifteen (15) years, and who shall not previously undergo a satisfactory 
examination in each of the branches ordinarily taught in the common 
schools of the state. 

§ 9. Each county in this state shall be entitled to one honorary 
scholarship in the university, for the benefit of the descendants of the 
soldiers and seamen who served in the armies and navies of the United 
States during the late rebellion — preference being given to the children 
of such soldiers and seamen as are deceased or disabled ; and the board 
of trustees may, from time to time, add to the number of honorary 
scholarships when, in their judgment, such additions will not embar- 
rass the finances of the university; nor need these additions be confined 



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to the descendants of soldiers or seamen ; such scholarships to be filled 
by transfer from the common schools of said county, of such pupils as 
shall, upon public examination, to be conducted as the board of trustees 
of the university may determine, be decided to have attained the great- 
est proficiency in the branches of learning usually taught in the 
common schools, and who shall be of good moral character, and not 
less than fifteen (15) years of age. Such pupils, so selected and trans- 
ferred, shall be entitled to receive, without charge for tuition, instruc- 
tion in any or all departments of the university for a term of at least 
three (3) consecutive years: Provided, said pupil shall conform, in all 
respects, to the rules and regulations of the university, established for 
the g< vernment of the pupils in attendance. 

§ 10. The faculty of the university shall consist of the chief instruc- 
tors in each of the departments. No degrees shall be conferred nor 
diplomas awarded by authority of the board of trustees, or of the 
faculty, except that the trustees, on recommendation of the majority of 
the faculty, may authorize the regent of the university to issue to 
applicants certificates of scholarship, under the seal of the university ; 
which certificate shall, as far as practicable, set forth the precise attain- 
ments, as ascertained by special examination, of the parties applying for 
the same, respectively, in the various branches of learning they may 
have respectively studied duririg the attendance in the university ; and 
every pupil who shall have attended "upon instruction in the university 
for not less than one year, maintaining, meanwhile, a good character 
for faithfulness in study and correctness of deportment, and who may 
desire to cease such attendance, shall be entitled to receive such certifi-' 
cate of scholarship as is authorized by this section to be issued. All 
certificates of scholarships shall be in the English language, unless the 
pupil should otherwise prefer ; and all names and terms on labels, 
samples, specimens, books, charts, and reports shall be expressed,, as 
nearly as may be, in the English language. 

§ 11. No member of the board of trustees shall receive any com- 
pensation for attending on the meetings of the board. At all the stated 
and other meetings of the board of trustees, called by the regent or 
corresponding secretary, or any five members of the board, a majority 
of the members shall constitute a quorum : Provided, all the members 
have been duly notified. 

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to permanently 
locate said university at CTrbana, in Champaign county, Illinois, when- 
ever the county of Champaign shall, according to the proper forms of 
law, convey or cause to be conveyed to said trustees, in fee simple, 
and free from all incumbrances, the Urbana and Champaign Institute 
buildings, grounds and lands, together with the appurtenances thereto 
belonging, as set forth in the following offer in behalf of said county, 
to wit : 

"The undersigned, a committee appointed by the board of supervi- 
sors of Champaign county, are instructed to make the following offer 
to the State of Illinois, in consideration of the permanent location of 
the Illinois, Industrial University at Urbana, Champaign county, viz : 
We offer the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings and grounds, 
containing about ten acres ; also, one hundred and sixty acres of land 
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adjacent thereto; also, four hundred acres of land, it being part of 
section No. twenty-one, in township No. nineteen north, range No. 9 
east, distant not exceeding one mile from the corporate limits of the 
city of Urbana. 

" Also, four hundred and ten (410) acres of land, it being part of 
section No. nineteen, township number nineteen, range number nine 
east, within one mile of the buildings herein offered. 

"Also, the donation offered by the Illinois Central Eailroad Company 
of fifty thousand dollars' worth of freight over said road for the benefit 
of said University. 

" Also, one hundred thousand dollars in Champaign county bonds, 
due and payable in ten years, and bearing interest at the rate of ten 
per cent, per annum, and two thousand dollars in fere, shade, and 
ornamental trees and shrubbery, to be selected from the nursery of M. 
L. Dunlap, and furnished at the lowest catalogue rates, making an 
estimated valuation of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.) 
Titles to be perfect, and conveyance to the state to be made or cause to 
be made by the county of Champaign, upon the permanent location of 
the Illinois Industrial University upon the said grounds, so to be con- 
veyed as aforesaid, and we hereby in our official capacity guarantee 
the payment of said bonds and the faithful execution of the deeds of 
conveyance free from all incumbrances as herein set forth. 

W. D. SOMERS, 
T. A. COSGROYE, 
C. R. MOORHOUSE, 

Committee." 

§ 13. The board of trustees shall, by and with the advice and con- 
sent of the governor and adjutant general, procure all such arms, 
accoutrements, books and instruments, and appoint such instructors as 
may, in their discretion, be required to impart a thorough knowledge 
of military tactics and military engineering, and they may prescribe a 
uniform dress to be worn by the pupils of the university. 

§ 14. That upon the organization of the board of trustees and the 
appointment of said treasurer, and the filing with and the approval by 
said board of the bond of said treasurer, and all of said foregoing acts 
being duly certified to the governor, under the hand of said regent, 
countersigned by the said recording secretary, it shall then become the 
legal duty of said governor to deliver over to said treasurer the land 
scrip issued by the United States to this state, for the endowment of 
said university, and that thereupon it shall become the duty of said 
treasurer to sell and dispose of said scrip at such time, place, in such 
manner and quantities, and upon such terms as such board shall, from 
time to time, prescribe, or to locate tbe same as said board may direct. 
Said treasurer being in all respects pertaining to the sale of said scrip, 
and the reinvestment of the proceeds received therefor, and the securi- 
ties when reinvested, subject to such order and control of said board 
as is not inconsistent with this act and the act of congress providing 
for the endowment of said university. 

§ 15. That all the right, title and interest of the State of Illinois in 
and to said land scrip, is hereby invested in the Illinois industrial uni- 
versity, for the use and purposes herein contained ; and said scrip shall 



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be assigned to said university by the governor of the state of Illinois 
on each certificate, and attested by the secretary of state, under the 
seal of the state ; and that the transfer of said scrip to purchasers by 
assignment on the back thereof, by the said officers of said university, 
under the seal thereof, in manner following, shall be deemed sufficient 
in law, to-wit : 

State of Illinois, 1 

Illinois Industrial University, f 

For value received, the state of Illinois hereby sells and assigns to 
. . . .the within scrip, and authorizes, . . .to locate the same, and obtain 
a patent on such location. 

Given under our hands and the seal of said university this day 

of. ...A. D. 186... 

A. B., Regent. 
C. D., Treasurer. 
Countersigned by 

E. F., Recording Secretary. 

§ 16. That upon said treasurer making sale of any of said scrip, 
he shall at once invest the funds so received, report the same to the 
said board, stating amount sold, price obtained and how the same was 
by him invested ; which report shall be filed with the recording secre- 
tary, who shall transmit a copy of the same to the governor of 6aid 
state, and he to the Congress of the United States, in accordance with 
said act of Congress. 

§ 17. That the said board shall order upon its minutes which of the 
several kinds of securities mentioned in the fourth section of said act 
of congress said treasurers shall invest proceeds of sales in. 

§ 18. The bond required to be given by said treasurer shall be con- 
ditioned for the faithful discharge of hi3 duties as treasurer of the 
" Illinois Industrial University," and for any breach thereof suit may 
be instituted, in the name of the " Illinois Industrial University;" and 
it shall be deemed a criminal offense for any person or persons holding 
in trust any part of the funds of said university knowingly or negli- 
gently to misapply or misappropriate the same, indictable in any court 
having jurisdiction, in the same manner as other crimes are punishable, 
by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, according to the 
nature of the offense. 

§ 19. This act shall be a public act and take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

Approved February 28, 1867. 



AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, 
endowment and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University." 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly^ That if the legal authorities of the 
county of Champaign shall not, by or before the first day of June, 1867, 
convey or cause to be conveyed, to the board of trustees of the Illinois 
Industrial University, by a good and unincumbered title, in fee simple. 



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all the real estate mentioned and contained in the propositions of said 
county, and which real estate is described and set out in the act to 
which this act is supplemental, amounting to nine hundred and eighty 
acres of land, and if said county shall not also pay over and deliver to 
said trustees by said day, all the bonds and other property offered by 
said county, mentioned in said act, then said board of trustees or a 
majority of them shall proceed without delay to permanently locate 
and establish said Industrial University in McLean, Logan or Morgan 
county ; such county so selected shall in like manner be required in all 
things to fulfill and comply with the conditions and provisions of the 
offer heretofore made by such county, as an inducement for the location 
of said university in such county. 

§ 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and 
after its approval. 

Approved March J3, 1867. 



United States of America, ) 

State of Illinois, ) ' office of secretary. 

I, Sharon Tyndale, secretary of state of the state of Illinois, do hereby certify that the 

foregoing are true copies of enrolled laws now on file in this office. In witness whereof 

I hereto set my hand and affix the great seal of state, at the city of Springfield, this 12th 

day of March, A. D. 1867. 

SHARON TYNDALE, 

Secretary of State. 



